Quote

There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into when it comes to music.

Stephen Fry

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Stephen Fry
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 1
Actor
Autobiographer
Comedian
Director
Film Actor
Film Director
Improviser
Journalist
Narrator
Novelist
Performing Artist
Hampstead Village
Stephen John Fry
Limit
Decent
Otherwise
Limits
Simply
Comes
Tyrannical
Music
Snobbery
People
Descend

More quotes by Stephen Fry

Image
Nature admits no hierarchy of beauty or usefulness or importance.
Stephen Fry
Image
I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
Stephen Fry
Image
Sometimes there just isn't enough vomit in the world.
Stephen Fry
Image
A book is judged, not by its reference to life, but by its reference to other books.
Stephen Fry
Image
There is no right language or wrong language any more than there are right or wrong clothes.
Stephen Fry
Image
Everything had been based on a kind of certainty, a sense of man at the center of things, a sense of order and hierarchy. And suddenly, almost simultaneously, extraordinary discoveries are made.
Stephen Fry
Image
You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
Stephen Fry
Image
Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.
Stephen Fry
Image
My general view is that best actor best suited to role should get the job. Obviously when it comes to colour and issues of ethnicity the choice is clear. But I do not believe you have to be transgender or have undergone sex reassignment surgery to be able play a character who has.Acting is acting after all.
Stephen Fry
Image
You can't just say there is a god because the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children
Stephen Fry
Image
I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It's in the spirit of it.
Stephen Fry
Image
I'm afraid I was very much the traditionalist. I went down on one knee and dictated a proposal which my secretary faxed over straight away.
Stephen Fry
Image
Lectures broke into one's day and were clearly a terrible waste of time, necessary no doubt if you were reading law or medicine or some other vocational subject, but in the case of English, the natural thing to do was talk a lot, listen to music, drink coffee and wine, read books, and go to plays, perhaps be in plays.
Stephen Fry
Image
Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
Stephen Fry
Image
How dare you? How dare you create a world in which there is such misery that is not our fault? It's not right, it's utterly, utterly evil. Why should I respect a capricious, mean-minded, stupid god who creates a world that is so full of injustice and pain?
Stephen Fry
Image
there is no reason why anyone should understand how it works… and of course no reason why anyone should care … unless you are curious, in which case I love you, for curiosity about the world and all its corners is a beautiful thing.
Stephen Fry
Image
As if a device can function if it has no style. As if a device can be called stylish that does not function superbly... yes, beauty matters. Boy, does it matter. It is not surface, it is not an extra, it is the thing itself.
Stephen Fry
Image
To me, reason is as spiritual as anything else, the beauty of reason seems to me indelible and ineffable and numinous... the spirit is after all the same word we use to describe... essence
Stephen Fry
Image
That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
Stephen Fry
Image
We always make the mistake, the fatal mistake in the case of military people, of imagining that each war will be a kind of version of the one that happened previously.
Stephen Fry